THE UK SKILLS LADDER — 2026-Q3 (Zavmo data report)

Headline: 76.8% of the UK's 58,802 mapped roles have a
complete, navigable route from job to skills (National Occupational
Standards) to Ofqual-regulated qualification.

Key figures:
- 58,802 UK roles, 14,078 National Occupational Standards,
  601,033 regulated qualifications (RQF) in the audited graph
- 45,177 roles (76.8%) have a fully mapped route;
  13,625 do not yet
- 419,922 authoritative role-to-skill links; a mapped role needs
  9.3 skills on average
- 140,780 skill-to-qualification links and 1,006,406
  role-to-qualification links (machine-inferred suggested matches, labelled
  as such — never presented as regulator fact)

Source: Zavmo careers graph — read-only production audit, 13 July 2026.
Built on Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications (Open Government Licence v3.0) and UK National Occupational Standards (NOS).

Full report and charts: https://zavmo.ai/uk/reports/skills-ladder-2026-q3
Methodology: https://zavmo.ai/methodology

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